The Sun. — London, England, 1808-07-23 00:00:00

-es of disastera the most distressing, * before a Gr vernment could be established wise, just, and liberal. " Happily for Spain she has arrived.at this point Without the nere;sity of enduring t o years of a destruc tive and sanguinary revolution, which has been perienCed in France. There is no other nation of the World which could have. passed frain one species of Government to another without being liable to vio lent commotins,w Inch must debilitate, if not ,ruin, the Empire. Spain,. alone, knew how- to suffer in• ,o aeconlmodate Itself to the vices of its tro narcls,iuorder not to expose itself to the greater calamities. • In a short time,. we shall all of us receive with gratitude, from the new Government, the salutary l aws Inch will be established , under the authority of the illustrious Protector of the nations of Europe. In the mean time, the great b.:Ay of ,the Spanish Peopl e will not listen to the complaints of a few ill= disposed citizens, who, interested in disorder, either from the degradation of their yank, or the inferiority Of their occupations, are inclined to - obstrud the Productive ottgagements of the nation at large, and to spread the flames of insubordination and discard. " Pacific inhabitants of the provinces, virtuous la bourers, useful and honourable artizans and trades ingenious and expert inventors, your condition Will soon be improved. You are the principal per sons who are losers in the progress of revolution, be cause you are deprived of your s effe6ts, of the means Of your subsistence, and of the consolation - of your children. Continue in your beneficial eng3geroents, and, In patience and tranquillity, await the events which will be 'advantageous to all ranks and condi tions among the people of Spain:: The same Gazele, and under the like influence, P ub lishes an Edit under the name of the Bishop of h~ T4 tspeß, to suppress tu mu lt s , at .d t o encourage favourab4 reception of strangers (the French) in that port; It also relates an ineffectual 'bombard ' tneut by an English Frigate o f t h e p or t o f C ux h aven, a ". s Peali s of a reinforcement to be sent from Hal landfer the security of the mouth Of the Elbe, Sa ntander is now occupied by the fi'encli ; it is Perh a Ps, therefore, the more interesting to inquire ilk ' the disposition of the people of that neighbour 11°°d prior to the intrusion of their enemies. It is. On this account, principally, that we publish the following PRoCLAMATIOAT FROM SANTANDER. " VALIANT SPANIARDS, " At.last the Frencit have thrown off the mask. ._;'he execrable Ikon ApotTE; with unexampled per 6dY, has imprisoned our beloveds. King, FERDIr4AND 1, and all his family, the utter e . xtinttion of which he 'A gutally projected; and the profligate MURAT, the Regent'of his Government, not contented with the destration of a large portion of the people of Sp • is atn, em proyed in disarming the rest, and in consigning., in cold blood, 300 . of our brethren to eapital puniihment, .for which he has no authority. :" If, Spaniards, otders are didated by this. MURAT, the best service \ tve can render to our King and to 'ol3r Country is to disregard them. All the Provinces of the Peninsula have risen in arms one voice only, One soul alone, animates the whole nation, and that is, to expel from our Country these vile intruders, to Proclaim our King, to support our Religion, our Di g nity, and our Independence, Until now we have been tranqnil, nourishing the viperi who'have Concealed their poison, but now the time has ar- T iVed that Spanish_ valour must be employed ; and if We have been' deceived,. it is because we are unac qoainted with the tricks of perfidy apd dishonour; b ut in the end it will b 4 discovered, that we Shall 14 A be abused with impunity. Three-fourths of the t roops of France are anxious to. remain with us, and I *'e desirous to be received tinder our banners. Wii t he small remainder we shall have little difficult y We have only to deprive them Of the means of sub istente, which we have liberally afforded, and those Who-do not perish with hunger, will. be destroyed by our bayonets." A Letter from Cadiz, dated 7th July, says— " The•news we daily receive here is of the most favourable description. .From the French. frontier IP Saragossa more than 1.7,000 Frenchmen have pe ' tail ed. At Saragossa ill wards of 1 . 2,000 were kill e d reby the sw or d, an d those which were saved from the I.Y of our troops,. effect e d it on l y by flinging them 's nit° the river Ebro. " It is impossible that a single man of DUPONT'S arrn i t, Can e sca -- , i pe although that General has not yet Surre ''` l ' r e'L A reinforcement of 5000 men, which a 1 W ered on their rnarch to'join him, have been beaten, fr o m whence they to to return to Madrid, -and '4egan their march. They lost one hundred sixty tvagons lad en with ammunition, and had tl,l,Pwards-. of One thousand men taken, risoners.— rom one moment to another we ezpett to hear of 1 UP " T' S unconditional surrender; tor, although he as en trenched hi mself in Andujar, yet we know be 1 1 ! in the g r eatest distress f or p rov i sions, and cannot old out long ; nor can his army, which it is !:teiieired does not exceed 7000 men,_etfect anY th ing against that'ly , ;kihich . he is surroudd. e has . al re,ly offered o ` capitulate, o n being alloweHd to return to Fran ce , with ‘he liberty o f ta ki ng with ii 6 , IlLn f our cover e d waggons. My next w ill certainly convey to you the news of this al my 1 eing t oinple!ely in our power. " Nothing cat: exceed the valour, discipline, and . . , good o .ler of the troops I.:n(ler CASTANOS : Evt - ry igitLi.e,it of whose army vies , A ith and e.i.billates each. other Li volunteering for every sort of hazlirdous service. _" The French are beaten in every dire&ion ; Go. neral MoNCEY, who was sent against Valencia Luigi 15,000 ryen, has been defeated, HIMSELF'-11.1LLED In the aclion, and we are assured, that scarcely' an y:of this army have escaped. " Another body of the French have been destroyed in Valdepenas, and about 3000 more at Valladolid, which city they attempted to pillage. 4.‘ The official news of the complete; destruCtiotl of the French at Saragossa by General PALAVoX has bevn teceived here. " Geneial CoEsTA was on his march to Madrid, where. it was believed there were not more than 4000 French troops. • " We have been somewhat surprised to read in the Madrid Gazette, of the tit JulY:inst. (which has hitherto been considered a n Official_ Journal), an ac count of .DUPONT'S army having taken Cordova, Carrnona, Utiera, Sherrys, and Port St. Mary's, and, thai conjointly with the French Fleet he, was 'bombarding, Cadiz, and that he had summoned. the place, threatening an.irumediate assault if not surren dered, Was there ever such. a base and infamous expedient resorted to, to impose and keep in the dark that part of Spain which is still under the do minion Of France, or the world in general:: The following is an extra& of another private let ter, of the same date, received yesterday : " The occurrences in this KingdoM are extreme ly encouraging, and we shortly expe6l to hear of the entrance of our troops into Madrid. It is confident ly believed, that General MoNcEY, with 15,000 men, has been completely defeated in Valencia, and the General himself killed. In Saragossa and. Val ladolid they haVe also lost a great number of men ; in La Mancha and Catalonia similar successes have happened "; and OtrpoNft army must soon surren der, unless- they 'prefer to be put to the sword." :MALAGA,JUNE 22.--Trie French Cons , .ll, and all the French inhabitants of this.eity, were on the 4th instant,' shut up in the Moorish Castle Gibralforo, with a view to save themselves from the impending fury of the populace, and until the 20th, no disor der of any kind was committed; but on that day, the people having obtained intelligence that a warehouse, rented by the French Consul in the suburbs, con tained a consideriible quantity of arts andarninuni Lion, (Which, in 'fad, were taken' from the English so long ago as the year iSOO,) they, conceiving that . this sas a depot secretly eolleded to await the arri val . of the 'French, proceeded in a considerable body, and in defiance of the attempts of the Deputy Go-• vernor to undeceive t,; . eni, demanded, the French Consul ; the Gnards• resisted, but the people broke -;rough them and entered the castle', froM whence they drew forth tlie'r - viCtim, and instantly sta6bed tt m. an.t disseded his body .as that of a traitor. Af ter 'p iradina toe city they returned again toile house of ;he French Consul, which they IA oceededin the . first place . to strip of every t hi ng movea bl e , and then set tire. to ii, anti tcbilst it was burning furiously, the mob threw into the flames all that replanted of the body of the Fre: , ch Consul. This scene being con cluded, the r eo ,e return,-d again to the Castle of. GLraiforo, front whence they drew forth a French rchant, ‘lte, they instantly, destroyed; in .nearly the same manner as the Consul, and consigned his remains 'to the same 'flatne.;. The warehouse was atterwatds broke open, and the whole contents de stroyed. These scenes took place, in defiance of the -in terictence of the Government of the Town. An ex pedient was at length resorted to, which produced the desired effeel. The Dean and Chapter met, and agreed on the instant formation of a religious proces sion, for the purpose of exhorting the mob to return to their homes. This Was accomplished, and pro duced the effed desired ; and in the evening 'of the same day, before sun-set; peaCe *as completely restored. • EXTRACT OF TWO LETTERS RECEIVED ON THE 22D OF THIS MONTH BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PORTUGUESE MINISTER, FROM MR. PATRICK PARRAL, THE PORTUGUESE AGENT AT GIBRAL- TAR :- " GIBRALTAR, JUNE 30.-1 have the honour to inform your Excellency, that on the 16th of this month the whOle Kingdom of Aldarve rose against the French, proclaiming his Royal Highness the Piztzccu. REGENT, our Master, for their only true and legitimate Sovereign . : the French Governor, and all those of that nation, holding public situations under him, were made prisoners. Many of the French were killed—the rest, throwing down their arws, Sought their safety in a shameful flight. A Supreme Junta is already established in Faro, the Capital of that Kingdom, in • the name of his Royal Highness. " The junta, is occupied in preparing with the greatest aciivity the means of completing this heroic undertaking. An Express has just- arri. ed here from Tavira, from his Excellency the Count of CASTRo- MARIN, rerpesting arms, tic. from the Governor of this place, who sent-what arms, powder, and skit be could spare, having sent large quantities to Spain. Messengers have also arrived here from Silves and Faro, making th e same request, but which could not be complied with, the Governor not having any to spare. The Portuguese Officers who were here waitin g an opportunity to .go to the Brazils have returnedJull of joy, to join their Regiments in Alga; ye." " GuiIIALTAR, JULY 5.-1 have the honour ta. inform your Excellency, that yesterday, the 4th inst. a small Portuguese Vessel entered this port, which was sent here by the Supreme Junta of Algarve, with a number of French prisoners, amongst whom are the late French Governor of Algarve, his Aid de-Carvp, and many other Officers." As Mr. WHITBREAD is perhaps the only man in the Kingdom who thinks we ought to open a Negotiation for Peace with BUONAPA RTg, while he is endeavour ing to enslave. Spain, and yet proposing that one of the preliminary articles should 'be his retreat from that Country, \INi - rutIEAD is the only person that ought to be employed ai Ambassador upon such an expedition as would indeed exceed all the enter prizes of the famous .'Cniglit of La 117(ntcha. JOSEPH BrONAPART has bad a whimsical fate, for as soon as he became Don, as King of Spain, the spirit of the,people made him de the title. GOTTENB URGH • GOTTENBURGH, JULY B.—According to private Letters from 'Stockholm, received by - the• post of to-day, , the KIND is' gone to Finland for the purpose of 'having a meeting with the EMPEROR ALEXANDER. It is stated in these Letters that the reason of the successes of the ! . .3ecles .?gainst the Russians in Finland has been ; that consi derable • numbf-rs of the hitter have been, or dered to march into Rusiian PO:and, which Country . ; it is rumoured, BUONAPARTE netildnd&,d; and those Letters go So far as to say, that the meeting, Of ALI,XANDER ,and Go sTActis.has for its objea • the forming a iiew Coalirion against France, to which Austria will join all her force. These repotis, we fear, are avleast- premature, if not .entirely founded. On Tuesday morning last his Britannic IVlajes ty's.Ship Viatny, Admiral Sir J. SAumAttrz, sailed for the Sound. • JULY 1 1.-The reports or Austria preparing for war, and of the meeting between. the King of S DENT and the Emperor ALEXANDER, cominue„ to prevail. Two English,and two Swedish Messengers . go by this Packet. FußusuND, - Juot Majesty, who em barked yesterday evening at ten o'clock, on board the Yacht Amadis, at Castellholm, arrived here at half past 9, P.M. and immediately continued his voyage.---(Stockholm. Gazette, July 4). His MAJESTY'S YACHT AMADIS, AT ANCHOR IN KORPO RIVER, JULY ,3.—His Royal Majesty set sail at ten .o'clOck at night from Furusund, and pursued his voyage to Billhithn Sound with fair wind and weather ; -he arrived the.re at half past 8 o'clock. As no intelligence could be received there of the position of the Swedish Flotilla, and the inha bitants reported, that a naval battle had been fought on the ;oth June, ,otf R em it ° , the result of• Which . could not be ascertained, it ;was judged necessary to colleel certain information. on - that head, and for that purpose to put back to Korpo River. Being compelled by storm and a heavy sea to drop anchor, his Majesty's Yacht was joined by three Gun-boats, fitted out in Flivaberg to reinforce the Royal Flo tilla. Rear Admiral HJILMSTOEN A is said to be at pre sent with tlie_ squadron under his command, off Skald, in the vicinity of Abo, the Russians having retreated from the position which they' occupied near Remit° since the above mentioned battle.— (SiockhUN Gazette, July 7.) STOCKHOLM, JOLY Royal S.wedish \, Ma jesty has been plea s ed . t o a pp o i nt a Board of Regency during hisynyage to the Coast of Finland,and Oland, Composed OfiCOGIII AXOB LBOLLE r,Espo t , Lieutenant-General Count FEB SON, General - taron STRcitticx, Count SA LWEL UUG L AS, Lieutc-Aant— General Baron CznEßsTooti, and Baron &MEN ELM.—(Stockholm Gazette, July 4.) itivr 4.—fiis Royal Majesty has received the fol. lowing Report tr.m Field-Marshal Count KLINGs.' PoR, . dated heart-chatters, Old Calk:by and Jacob-• stad, the itithand e6th June : " IYIy .last report was of the 14th instant, which dispatched form Heinmango,- having since made severalthovements to turn the Enemy's fitrong po sition in Old Carleby, and thereby to 'compel him to abandon the same, when 1 received . the unexpected intelligqince that the Enenly, 5000 strong, hNd evacuated 'OM Carleby. Having becopied . that posh ion, I 'thought it necessary to reinforce the CorpS under the orders of Colonel .SANDECI, since had received a report 4 - rf his haring' been two'days eng;iged with the Enemy; the particulars of which action I am, however, not yet'acquainted with. The Russians have, however, tallen-backfurther to'New Carieby, and their advanced pe s t s are . near Sundby, a quarter of a mile from Jacobstad. " In consequence of your Royal Majesty having ordered another expedition to proceed from. Sweden to Wasa, in order to make a diversion in favour of the Finnish army, I thought it right to pursue the enemy after the evacuation of. Old Carleby with. the utmost vigour. I made accordingly the necessary. =dispositions to attack - New Catleby, which was'oc-, ciipied•by the enemy, and by carrying the said po snion to become masters of the road of Lappo and Wasa, which separate in opposite direaions on the side of NeW Carleby ; the tormer in order sto keep ,up the cOmumnicati3n with Sevdlax, and the latter with regard to the diversiop on' the side of Wasa. " The attack was made on the 23ctuith so much gallantry and success that the Russians were driven from NeW Carleby, with the loss of 76 men• taken prisoners, 'and. a much greater number killed and wounded. " AIAURICE KhINGSPOR."_ " field Marshal and General in Chiet of the Fineiitt • By a separate letter his Royal Majesty has, been informed, by his lijcellency Marshal, Count KLING- . spox-, of- his baving'received intelligence, that .Ad ;.ttant General Baron BERJENSTRATE," who com mands the ekpedition.against Vasa, has made good landing at half a mile distance f ro m th at c i t y.— . (The same Paper.) - GUTTENBURGII, JULY 15.--Letters have been received here to-day . from St. Petersburgb, Riga; Memel, &e. Those from the latter place speak of a War between Russia and France as inevitable, and say, that a Russian Army is expe6ted there imme diately. Several small English Vessels of War, Gun-brigs, &c. have arrived here yesterday and to day they saw a Fleet of English Transports, con:. Listing of 40 Sail, steering for the Cattegat, said to have on board 4000 troops. Four Vessels have arrived atStockholm from Riga, one of which left that place, half laden, in conse quence of a❑ embargo which was ordered to be laid On all Ships there, the day the left it. We have no official news to-day from Finland or Norway. The Mail also brings a tong, but, very uninteresting ac count of some movements of the Swedish and Russian Gal leys and un-boats ; but in which bottling of consequence occurred.] The three last Packets, with Mails from England, arrived at Gottenburgb, on the following days On the 9th, the King George; loth, Lord Duncan;" I 4th. - Diana, bringing the Mails from London up o the Bib. REPORT. COMMON PLEAS, t 3 ILDRAit. BROCKWAY V. bAYIS.Tiiia • vas an action brought to recover 81. anti some Odd Shillings for goods sOld'and deliverecL The Plaintiff is a - Widow, 'who keeps a hosier's shop in The defence was, that the goods had been sold .faring the life-time of the Plaintitr , , hus band, exi'ept to th e va l ue of e2l. i 9s. and that the husband' was indebted.'-to the Defendant in mote than the amount. The que , tion* therefore was, whether the goods for which 61. 'had bren charged, were sold in the life-time of the Plaintiff's husband. The .shopman- swore that his master had died on the 24th. of July lavt year, and that the gbods had een sold on the 26th.—A Mr. Griffiths also deposed, that , he saw him out' on the .c. , 6! h. From an erasure in' the 'clay-book, and some palpable contradktions into which the shopman fell, Sir-r. MANSFIELD was of opinion, that his testimony was - worthmothing, and that that of the other Witness did not make out the case.—Verdia for*the Plaintiff, 21, igs. TILLAGE V. EGGLESTONE This was an :idiot] to recover .the value o f some pigs sold by the Plaintiff id the Defendant. The defence was, that the pigs had been given on trial for a month; Within - which they had all died of the heavincs . except- one, for, which the Defendant had offered lo pay.' This defence was clearly made out by several persons - who were present at the bargain at BrentrOrd marker.—Plaintiff non-suited. nn Wednesday two wa?gons-, loaded with d o ll ars , t. *ex taken fro m t h e B an k to proceed to Portsmouth. We have beet) infon'ried that JUNOT some tirce since issued a Proclamation at Lisbon, by which he invites the pe3ple. of Portugal to - repair to his stand ard, and . Offers such as should immeliately comply the daily payment of a new crown (about 2s. Sid. sterling). 'Notwithstanding the magnitude Of the tt;inptation, it does not appear that a single person had taken advantage of it. • Kletter frorri Seville, of the 4th July, received yesterday ; states that 5000 British troops were hour ly expeaed at 'bat place, for' whom quarters had ..beet provided. . Mr. DUFF, who for:upwards of 50 years has been British Consul at Cadiz, and who returned in con sequence of the entrance of the French into Spain, has been desired to hold himself in readiness to re turn to his Cumulate: Mr. FRERE will proceed to SeviTle, as Ambassador to Spain, by the save con veyance._ The Duke of KENT has presented ,her MAJESTY with two'beautiful bay ponies, to be kept at Frog more, for the purpose of, drawing her MAJES T Y about the delightf u l grounds.and gardens there. _ft is with great I'leaSure we learn that several Re giments of Voluntees have offered to . extend their sere ice to any liiVrt" of Spain. The Ist Brig6de. of Guards, now at Deal, which lately returned from Sicily, have likewise most handsotnelypeiitionedio be sent to assist the Spaniards, and in conseqUetice the order for the 2d Brigade of Guards to be in rea diness for immediate , embarkation has been coun termanded.. TranSpoits are preparing f or th e recep tion of this distifigoished Corps, and it is expc.eted.it will be embarked in time to sail with the troops now colleting at Potismotith: Sir H. BUBRAHD, of the 1s! Guards, is be Second in Command. - DURL/N, JULY 16.—Our Militia Regimeots are posseised with the ardour of the times so tliat we nnderstand inarty of them, have pressed for per mission to serve upon some oi,the Expeditions. „Toe North COrk Regiment of Militia, commanded by Colonel' MOOLIE HODDER, an Officer of aemplary ability and therit, has, we know, to a man, de manded to be 'sent upon service, and especially to and have . addressed his Majesty to tliat effeCt. The Yeomanry too are fired with the lo*e of military exploit. Several Corps have, come for evardand offered to serve in Spain-,--Others have.vo lunteered military duty at hcme,"in.ordei‘ to allow a larger embarkation of the Army if it should be thought expedient; in short, every existing senti ment the great body of the public indicates that. nobleness and generosity of spirit which.one gal lant and high-minded people always ent3tain for another. JOHNSTONE, of Drury-Lane Theatre, is now at Dublin, and is to perforto there in a few days. Mrs. DICKONS is also . expeaed to perform at the same place. _ • SUICIDE.--Last night, at eight o'clock, a 'Coro ner's Inquest sat before JOSEPH SIIELTON, Esq.' in one of the Commissioners' jooms, in the ,Custom- HOUse, on the body of . Mr. Edward . Jones, one or the Gentlemen - employed in the Office el the Re ceiver -General of the Revenue. It appeared that the deceased had come tb the Office at ten o'clock, en Thursday morning, the usual hour. About twelve o'clock 'a noise, like the report of a 'pistol, was heard through the Custom-House ; a short time alter, one of the Clerks having opened a water-closet door, he perceived a'rnan leaning back, apparently with a red 'silk handkerchief on his face; he stopped at the door, when a second Clerk came up, and perceived the blood &win ;' they were both so frightened that they ran-away and 'gave the alarm. On the bOdy being brought to light, horrid to relate? . the whole face was blown off: The . pistOl had burst, supposed from being overloaded. The breach of the pistol Was clenched in his hand, from 'which position it has been impossible to remove it. Two razors and a pared of bullets were found in his pockets. It appeared in evidence- thk the deceased was about - 70 years of age, and had, been upwards of 50 in the Receiver-General's, Office ; he had the most respeCt able character , and was beloved by every person in the dePartment. Some of the Getillernen of the Office said, that for two years past they had perceiv ed him do childish acts, such as sing foolish songs, and get on the desk and dance.—A Gendeman who ' had been in the habit of walking with him for an hour every morning, deposed that he seemed to be of as sound mind as men generally of his age ; but in conversation with him it seemed to prey upon his mind his not having got farther forward in the Office after his long services ; fear of poverty could not be the cause, he had no children, .and his wife had a jointure of '5OOl. a year settled on her. The Jury, after considering a short time, return.; ed a verdiat, that he had taken away his life in ap of insanity. - Through tl - e whole of the evidence there neur appeared to be a - Man - inOte - fereete'd or m ore re gretted. 1 ; '''' :